Author: Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY

Mass protests around the world have broken out, for different reasons, in recent months. On Sunday, Iran imposed a near total Internet blackout.

Turkish media identified the Islamic State group fighter as Mohammad Darwis B. and said he was an American citizen of Jordanian background.

The Israeli strike killed Bahaa Abu el-Atta and his wife, setting off a furious barrage of dozens of rocket attacks reaching as far as Tel Aviv.

The Taliban kidnapped American Kevin King in 2016, along with Timothy Weeks, an Australian national, outside the American University of Afghanistan.

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran will inject uranium gas into centrifuges, weakening a nuclear deal with world powers that has all but collapsed.

The announcement of new nuclear deal violations comes as Iran marks the anniversary of the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover and ensuing hostage crisis.

The announcement was reported by the Site Intelligence Group, which monitors the online content of extremist groups.

Most polls show Boris Johnson is likely to comfortably win the Dec. 12 vote.

The development comes just three days before Britain was due to become the first country ever to leave the 28-nation bloc on Oct 31.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he will likely ask Parliament to approve an election as part of an effort to break a Brexit deadlock.